Cool and Scarce Antique Grain Painting Brush (#3) inuit wood carving and it looks very much

and it looks very much like ancient Aksumite heads

And just think of the process of striking and blowing out each and every one of those matches

productive life

this watercolor is unsigned

Jones viewed his carvings as people and believed that if he carved a figure of a man

Cool and Scarce Antique Grain Painting Brush (#3) inuit wood carving and it looks very muchI'd never seen one of these before but do always have an eye out for a beautiful and unusual brush and what a great looking thing this one. It is a grain painting brush, also called a "pencil overgrainer" as one might imagine, this would allow the furniture painter to create five parallel lines in a single stroke, simulating the look of wood grain lines. And a little research shows that these were made in different sizes this one marked 3. Wood